Bo Gu

Bo Gu (14 May 1907-8 April 1946) was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1932 to 1935, succeeding Xiang Zhongfa and preceding Zhang Wentian.

Biography
Qiu Bangxian was a Jiangsu-born alumnus of the revolutionary Shanghai University, where he developed his views of Marxism-Leninism. Bo took part in boycotts and protests against imperialism before becoming one of the "28 Bolsheviks" who studied at the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University in the Soviet Union. He took on the nom de guerre of "Bo Gu", meaning "familiar with history", and he was one of the orthodox Marxists who resisted Mao Zedong's split from the mainstream. From 1932 to 1935, he served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China. In January 1935, he would defect to Mao's camp, and he helped in forming the united front with the Kuomintang. In 1941, he became the head of the Xinhua News Agency, which was just a newspaper at that point. He died in a plane crash alongside Wang Ruofei, Deng Fa, and Ye Ting on 8 April 1946.